Shtip – a city in the eastern part of the Republic of Macedonia with 43,652 h. (2002). Extends to a hilly terrain between r. Bregalnica and occasional waterway Otinja, at an altitude between 260 and 320 m. It covers an area of 2.080 ha. With the main road, M-5 in the West is connected with Veles, and east with Kocani and Delcevo, and with M-6 in the southeast with Radovish and Strumica. Stip is a railway station on the railway line Veles-Kocani. It has a moderate-continental climate with an average annual air temperature of 12.8 ° C and an average annual amount of precipitation of 482 mm. View of the city of Stip from the Hisard is considered one of the oldest cities in Macedonia. He is formed in the place of ancient Roman city of Astibus, who at the time of Byzantium is mentioned under the name of Stipeon, after which Shtip received today’s name. As a city fortress under the name Stip he was in the composition of the Macedonian state of Emperor Samuel. The Turks conquered it in 1395. At the time of their rule, there is an important settlement on the sover, and in ⅹⅴⅰ and ⅹⅴⅰⅰ c. He was a government seat. The famous Turkish roads Evliya Celebija told Stip that he had 2,240 houses, 450 stores, great Bezisten, Caran Saraj, 27 mosques and 7 Anne, while the French consul Peony noticed that in 1800 The city has 3,000-4,000 h. In ⅹⅰⅹ c., Especially in his second half, the city of commercial and populations quite strengthened in 1900. It lived 20,900 h. At the time of the Balkan and First World War, Stip was in the zone of military operations, which, together with the eviction of the Turks, have negatively reflected the development of the city, so in 1931. The population declined to 11,859 h. In the period between the two world wars, the city performed the role of an administrative center for Eastern Macedonia. And today it is the main crossroads and the largest city and industrial center in this part of the Republic. The population consists of mainly Macedonians (39,323 h.), And the most numerous are Roma (2,184), followed by Vlachs (1,727), and the Turks (877) and Serbs (272). Shtip is the seat of a municipality that covers an area of 58,324 ha, there are 44 settlements with 47,796 h. From the industrial branches in the city, the most common textile and industry for footwear, metal and electrical industry. In Stip there is a gymnasium and three secondary vocational schools, mining and pedagogical faculty, and the opening of other faculties at the new University “Goce Delcev” is expected. There is also a museum, the Institute for the Protection of Cultural Monuments, Historical Archives, Health Center, and from cultural and historical monuments: Fortress Isar with a memorial of the revolution, Bezisten with an art gallery, and the churches “St. Archangel, “” St. Spas “,” St. John “and” St. The Virgin, and the mosque Husamedin-Pashza. Lit.: Bloody Aleksova, etc., Stip through the centuries, kn. First and second, Shtip, 1986; After-II’s population, households and apartments in the Republic of Macedonia, 2002, REC. J, DSH, Skopje, 2004. Al. ST.
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